TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Fazekas, Mihály A1 - Martinez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto A1 - Tóth, Bence T1 - Towards a comprehensive mapping of information on public procurement tendering and its actors across Europe N2 - This report presents the results of a comprehensive mapping exercise of the scope and quality of public procurement and linked information in 35 European jurisdictions: 28 European Union member states, 6 EU neighbouring countries and the European Commission. Part I analyses the public procurement information hosted in national platforms and made available online for the average user. This analysis enables the classification and comparison of countries along a series of dimensions, such as the amount of historical data on individual tenders, the scope of tender documentation publicly available, the fragmentation of procurement information sources, and the degree of machine-readability of tender announcements, among several others. Parts II and III of the report complement the information on procurement processes and outcomes with information on the two main actors involved in these processes: bidders and buyers. In this context, part II maps existing relevant data on private companies and part III follows with data on the governmental units acting as contracting authorities in each of our 35 jurisdiction. Discussing information linked to public procurement tendering data goes beyond the description of this deliverable in the Description of Work. KW - public procurement KW - national regulatory framework KW - Europe KW - data quality Y1 - 2015 UR - http://digiwhist.eu/publications/towards-a-comprehensive-mapping-of-information-on-public-procurement-tendering-and-its-actors-across-europe/ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Thomsson, Kaj A1 - de Crombrugghe, Denis T1 - Minding Weber more than ever? The impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on development goals JF - World Development N2 - State capacity has attracted renewed interest over the last years, notably in the study of violent conflict. Yet, this concept is conceived differently depending on where the interest lies. In this article, we focus on bureaucratic autonomy as a distinct concept and discuss its connection to state capacity in detail. Using panel data over 1990–2010 and a novel indicator of autonomy, we estimate the separate effect of state capacity and bureaucratic autonomy on child mortality and tuberculosis prevalence. The evidence suggests that bureaucratic autonomy has a stronger impact than commonly used measures of state capacity or traditional macroeconomic variables. KW - state capacity KW - bureaucratic autonomy KW - Millennium Development Goals KW - child mortality KW - tuberculosis Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.02.016 N1 - Other version: UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2013-052. VL - 72 SP - 191 EP - 207 ER -